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Democratic senator for New Jersey
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Menendez votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Menendez’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
| Biden margin | Biden score | Biden plus-minus |
|---|---|---|
| Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s | How often Menendez votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Menendez’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+15.9% | 100.0% | +5.4 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Menendez vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 22, 2022 | Providing appropriations for various federal departments and agencies for fiscal year 2023; updating the process of appointing and tallying presidential electors; providing money for humanitarian, security and economic assistance to Ukraine (68-29) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 93.3% | +6.7 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Robert Menendez's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 94.8% | -94.8 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 81.3% | +18.7 |
| Nov. 29, 2022 | Repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and requiring states to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages performed out-of-state; includes an amendment allowing religious organizations to deny services or accomodations for same-sex weddings (61-36) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.9% | +4.1 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Robert Menendez's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 82.9% | -82.9 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| Aug. 7, 2022 | Allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices; extending Affordable Care Act subsidies; expanding tax credits for renewable and clean energy efforts; establishing a 15 percent corporate minimum tax; and other measures (50-50) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.8% | +5.2 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Robert Menendez's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.1% | -99.1 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.3% | +6.7 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.3% | +1.7 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Robert Menendez's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.3% | -97.3 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Robert Menendez's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 98.9% | -98.9 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.1% | +3.9 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.7% | +8.3 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Robert Menendez's Vote: Not Voting | oppose | Didn't Vote | 90.9% | ||
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.1% | +4.9 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.2% | +5.8 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.4% | +5.6 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Robert Menendez's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 94.9% | -94.9 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Robert Menendez's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 93.5% | -93.5 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.9% | +1.1 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Robert Menendez's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 98.8% | -98.8 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Robert Menendez's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 86.3% | -86.3 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.8% | +5.2 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Robert Menendez's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.8% | -99.8 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Robert Menendez's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 48.1% | -48.1 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.0% | +3.0 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.2% | +4.8 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.5% | +4.5 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.8% | +5.2 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.5% | +5.5 |
| July 29, 2021 | Providing emergency funding for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack and for the expansion of the Afghan visa program (98-0) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 22, 2021 | Expanding voting rights and strengthening campaign finance regulations and ethics rules (50-50) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.8% | +5.2 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.7% | +5.3 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.5% | +8.5 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.7% | +3.3 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.2% | +4.8 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.5% | +6.5 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.9% | +3.1 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.4% | +3.6 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 16, 2021 | Nomination of Isabella Casillas Guzman to be administrator of the Small Business Administration (81-17) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.0% | +3.0 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.4% | +2.6 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.8% | +3.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.0% | +6.0 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.9% | +5.1 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.1% | +5.9 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.3% | +4.7 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.4% | +6.6 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.4% | +4.6 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.6% | +3.4 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 69.6% | +30.4 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Robert Menendez's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.5% | +2.5 |
| Average | 100.0% | 94.6% | +5.4 | |||
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